I’ve heard talk of mentoring programs in several other parts of the EA community as well. 80,000 Hours has one such program. I do think it would be good to look into doing more mentoring within EA though.
(By the way, I actually joined this community after having an EA mentor me!)
Well, one day I was volunteering at a climate change rally, and I got into a really interesting conversation with an EA who was there. The next day he decided to come to a meeting for the climate change group I was part of, and he added me on FB. He invited me to things such as the LW Canberra meetup and we talked (about EA ideas) pretty regularly on FB. And because of that, I got involved with EA quite quickly :)
Aha cool, that’s a helpful explanation, as it’s not what I was thinking of as mentoring. It’s more like person-to-person introduction or local outreach.
Is there an EA mentoring program? I feel like that might address some of the friction between EAs and opportunities.
Not to my knowledge. This might be a good thing to suggest to .impact
That is well worth doing. There are instructions on doing this somewhere on their website https://impact.hackpad.com/ .
I’ve heard talk of mentoring programs in several other parts of the EA community as well. 80,000 Hours has one such program. I do think it would be good to look into doing more mentoring within EA though.
(By the way, I actually joined this community after having an EA mentor me!)
Interesting. What was your story?
Well, one day I was volunteering at a climate change rally, and I got into a really interesting conversation with an EA who was there. The next day he decided to come to a meeting for the climate change group I was part of, and he added me on FB. He invited me to things such as the LW Canberra meetup and we talked (about EA ideas) pretty regularly on FB. And because of that, I got involved with EA quite quickly :)
Aha cool, that’s a helpful explanation, as it’s not what I was thinking of as mentoring. It’s more like person-to-person introduction or local outreach.
I would STRONGLY recommend that more EAs do this informal kind of mentoring. I’ve been trying it myself, with quite a lot of success.